Finish the Quote - Take Two
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”The key is to never let someone else tell you..”
"to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else."
from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
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The key is to never let someone else tell you to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.
"to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else."
from The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
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The key is to never let someone else tell you to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.
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Finishing: “that dragons can be beaten.”
From Coraline by Neil Gaiman
New quote: "The key is to never let someone else tell you that dragons can be beaten."
From Coraline by Neil Gaiman
New quote: "The key is to never let someone else tell you that dragons can be beaten."
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New Quote: “The snozberries taste like snozberries!” — Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Completed Quote:
Completed Quote:
The key is to never let someone else tell you the snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Beans have been sent!
Our next prompt for November is:
“You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that…”
From: The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore
Finishing the Quote:
“ Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
From The Child Thief by Gerald Brom
Ending with:
“You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
Our next prompt for November is:
“You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that…”
From: The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore
Finishing the Quote:
“ Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
From The Child Thief by Gerald Brom
Ending with:
“You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.”
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Finishing the Quote : - "People learned to live with the most unimaginable things. " From "And the Mountains Echoed" , by Khaled Hosseini.
Ending With: - "You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that people learned to live with the most unimaginable things. " .
Ending With: - "You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that people learned to live with the most unimaginable things. " .

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - Albus Dumbledore.
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New Quote: “You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.” — Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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Completed Quote:
You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that you know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.
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“You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that…”
" ... life finds a way."
from Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
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You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that life finds a way.
" ... life finds a way."
from Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
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You asked about my tale of suffering and I wanted you to see that life finds a way.
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Beans have been sent!
Our last quote for November is:
“It’s no use going back to yesterday because…’
From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Finishing the quote:
“ perhaps fantasies are only meant to come true for a moment.”
FromThe Sea Witch by Sarah Henning
Ending with:
“It’s no use going back to yesterday because perhaps fantasies are only meant to come true for a moment.”
Our last quote for November is:
“It’s no use going back to yesterday because…’
From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Finishing the quote:
“ perhaps fantasies are only meant to come true for a moment.”
FromThe Sea Witch by Sarah Henning
Ending with:
“It’s no use going back to yesterday because perhaps fantasies are only meant to come true for a moment.”

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“It’s no use going back to yesterday because…’
"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?"
from A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
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It’s no use going back to yesterday because nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
"Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?"
from A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
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It’s no use going back to yesterday because nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
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New Quote: “…as you can see, the chaos of the world has an underlying order.” — Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
Completed Quote:
Completed Quote:
It’s no use going back to yesterday because, as you can see, the chaos of the world has an underlying order.
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Finishing: “it was the worst of times”
From A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens
New quote: "It’s no use going back to yesterday because it was the worst of times"
From A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens
New quote: "It’s no use going back to yesterday because it was the worst of times"
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Beans have been sent out. 
Our first quote for December is:
Matched with:
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Our first quote for December is:
– Wintersmith by Terry PratchettAnd, as always happens, and happens far too soon,…
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- The Bone Doll's Twin by Lynn Flewellingpeople make their own future through the balance of each day's little kindnesses and cruelties.
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And, as always happens, and happens far too soon,… people make their own future through the balance of each day's little kindnesses and cruelties.

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"And, as always happens, and happens far too soon,..."
"...by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby." - Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
"...by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby." - Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit
"And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby."

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And, as always happens, and happens far too soon,..."
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“… in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles -- we can forget our souls. ”
From: Corrag by Susan Fletcher
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“ And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles -- we can forget our souls. ”
Adding:
“… in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles -- we can forget our souls. ”
From: Corrag by Susan Fletcher
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“ And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, in our scrabbling for food, in the washing of our bodies and warming of them, in our small daily battles -- we can forget our souls. ”

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Finishing: “you will go out and let stories happen to you”
From Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
New quote: "And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, you will go out and let stories happen to you"
From Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
New quote: "And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, you will go out and let stories happen to you"
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From “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean VuongThey say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it.
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And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, they say nothing lasts forever by they’re scared it will last longer than they can love it.
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And, as always happens, and happens far too soon,…
"... there was a gust of wind, and they were gone."
from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine l'Engle
Ending with
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, there was a gust of wind, and they were gone.
"... there was a gust of wind, and they were gone."
from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine l'Engle
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And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, there was a gust of wind, and they were gone.
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New Quote: “I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.” — Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Completed Quote:
Completed Quote:
And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.
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Beans should be winging their way to people now.
This week we have....
Matched with:
It gives us:
This week we have....
– If Only They Could Talk by James HerriotHe devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to…
Matched with:
– First Test by Tamora Pierce…following little birdies.
It gives us:
He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to following little birdies.

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“ He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligence to…”
Adding:
“… lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild.”
From Corsets & Clockwork by Ann Maguirre
Finishing with:
“He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligent to lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild.”
Adding:
“… lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild.”
From Corsets & Clockwork by Ann Maguirre
Finishing with:
“He devoted a considerable amount of his acute intelligent to lessons in magic from a mysterious boy who belonged to a hidden Ferisher court called the Wild.”

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.”
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